Chandigarh: Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh on November 22 said that the
police administration in Gujarat had become quite professional now and the
Commission was satisfied with the arrangements being made for next month's Assembly
elections in the state.
"They (the police) have decided to be professional. We persuaded them to be
professional and they have been persuaded as far as we could...it is the police
administration which matters. They are quite professional now," Lyngdoh told
reporters.
He said that the Election Commission was satisfied with the arrangements being made
up ahead of the Assembly elections.
"Special observers have already gone there and ordinary observers are going. We have
a lot of (security) forces coming in and everything should be alright," he
said.
Asked if the Commission was getting co-operation from Gujarat's Chief Minister and
other top political brass, he said, "We are not dealing with him."
"We are dealing with people like the chief secretary and the director general of
police and they have to comply. It is entirely a relation between them and us and
not the political executive," Lyngdoh said.
Asked if the decision of "postponing" the elections in Gujarat was right, the CEC
said, "Obviously it was right, there is no doubt about that."
PTI
